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Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics) by Frida Beckman Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics) about?
When revolution becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form. Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in contemporary mainstr
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Frida Beckman Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781783488018
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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